Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court gets lost in the tangle. Only two years ago, Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing for the majority, said in effect that blue laws would violate the First Amendment only if their essential purpose were to aid religion, but nowadays "most of them, at least, are of a secular rather than a religious character." Sunday, said Warren, has come to be "a time for family activity, for late sleeping, for passive and active entertainments, for dining out and the like." Seldom has an issue of liberty been argued on flabbier grounds...
...outpouring of wrath, sympathy-and hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess to be the worst in their role: their inability to stand in pulpits and to preach Acts 17:26 (God "hath made...
...help dispel the notion that the U.S. considers Africa a continent of nothing but natural-born jazz lovers. Choirs from five colleges and universities and the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra are going abroad, and next spring Latin America will be treated to visits by two first-rate secular choral groups, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Roger Wagner Chorale. All the performers have far easier schedules this year, to permit offstage meetings with the local talent for workshops and seminars...
...Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The government reacted by placing the Buddhist strong holds of Hué and Nhatrang under virtual martial law. Although worried that the burnings might get out of hand, Buddhist leaders defended the suicides as "noble sacrifices," were rounding up secular and military support...
Wisconsin's president, Pastor Oscar J. Naumann, 54, is similarly tolerant in secular affairs. "But on a matter which affects our hope for salvation-Scripture-there can be no compromise," he says. Until Missouri reforms, adds Pastor Schaefer, "we cannot pray with them, we cannot work with them, we cannot worship with them and, by extension, with anyone else who does...